FEAR OF FLYING BY THE SEAT OF OUR BRITCHES

A FEW DAYS AGO, Erica Jong, the author and self-described feminist, gave an interview to the Italian daily Corriere della Sera, the choicest bits of which were brought to my attention by the reliably sharp-eyed Christian Rocca, the U.S. correspondent of Il Foglio, who published excerpts on his Camillo blog. Basically, Jong says her fear that Obama might lose the election has developed into an "obsession. A paralyzing terror. An anxious fever that keeps you awake at night."

She also says that her friends Jane Fonda and Naomi Wolf are extremely worried that Obama will be sabotaged by Republican dirty tricks, and that if an Obama loss indeed comes to pass, the result will be a second American Civil War.

Read it all.

Now for some positive words, words that make sense, words that reflect what we already have suspected weeks ago. Here is an inside look at political polls and corruption and ignorance behind them.